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ConFoo is the gold standard of software development conferences. The 2020 edition will take place from February26th to February 28th 2020, at the Hotel Bonaventure in beautiful downtown Montreal. As always, we’ll have a stellar lineup of renown international speakers, new, innovative and surprising topics as well as great off-conference social gatherings.

If you have great knowledge or interesting experiences in the software development field, we want to hear from you! Submit your ideas today and become one of our speaker for ConFoo’s next edition!

When to apply?

You have until September 16th to submit a talk. Once the submissions are closed, our selection committee will review each and every proposal and proceed with the selection. The list of selected talks will be published on October 15th.

What to prepare?

ConFoo talks are 45 minutes long: 35 minutes for the topic, plus a 10 minutes Q&A session. Check out the list of topics we are interested in. We encourage you to submit multiple talks!

What to expect as a speaker

As a speaker, you get full access to all presentations and activities for the duration of the event. And we do have many activities for you, from the day you arrive to the day you leave: drinks, dinners, parties, etc. You also get invited to a private banquet with all speakers, sponsors and members of the organization committee.

If you live outside Québec, we will cover your travel and accommodation expenses. We do request that you do at least 2 different talks. Please submit as many proposals as possible to give us more flexibility.

How to get accepted?

You can go through our detailed guidelines to write your proposals. We also highly recommend to new speakers to prepare a 1-minute video with the intro to your talk so we can better assess your abilities.

Interested in attending ConFoo Montreal 2020?

Tickets sell fast, so don’t wait and get them now. Plus, you save 320$ per ticket if you buy them before October 11th! Checkout last year talks to see why you don’t want to miss next year’s edition!

After the record-breaking success of last year’s edition, the ConFoo team is pleased to open the registration for the 18th edition of ConFoo Montreal. The conference will be held at the traditional venue, the Bonaventure Hotel, on February 26th to 28th 2020.

The last edition established a new attendance record: 715 people attended our conference! We are already hard at work to make 2020’s edition, the one yet!

And as a token of gratitude for showing up in such number, we are offering the first 20 persons to register for next year’s edition a 345$ discount as well as a free gift: Phil Snow, the ConFoo elePHPant! Offer expires on June 20th.